Behemoth Droppings

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. It is also the year of the Scout Jamboree, which happens every 4 years. When I saw this in the news, I started thinking about my Scout days, all the fun I had, and everything I learned.

Then I saw that Mr. President, Barack Obama, decided that he would not attend and speak at the Scout Jamboree (something that the past three presidents have done). Instead, he went and appeared on “The View”. After getting over my disgust at this (I could make a HUGE post about this), I started thinking about the Scout Oath. For those that don’t know, it goes:

On my honor, I will do my best:
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

I had never really thought deeply about the oath, even though I’ve quoted it a million times. The more I thought about it, the more the first line stood out to me.

On my honor, I will do my best

I promise I will do my best! That’s all it’s saying. Not to be perfect, but just do my best. I’ll do my best for my God and my country. I’ll do my best to help others whenever I can. I’ll do my best to keep myself healthy, sharp, and moral.

I think a lot of time in life we judge ourselves to perfection, and we always fall short. We need to just go out and do our best. If it’s the best we can do, then it’s enough!

Well this is, yet another, long overdue post. So in a nutshell, here’s what’s been going on:

I finally was able to get to play basketball in our church league. There always seemed to be something that kept me from playing. This is the first time I’ve really played basketball since college. Yeah, beside being out of shape I was also out of practice. It was almost embarrassing how bad I was playing. Luckily, it’s coming back to me pretty quickly.

Since I’m on basketball, I guess it would be worth noting that I got to meet John Calipari this past week. We had a big event for the Fine Arts Fund, and Coach Cal stopped by, gave a quick speech, and signed autographs. Unfortunately, I forgot to take my camera and the cell phone didn’t take a good picture. But at least I got an autographed picture from him!!!

That was a pretty eventful day. Before going downtown to meet Coach Cal, I donated blood at work for our Hoxworth blood drive. This was the first time I had ever donated blood. I was told back in high school that I couldn’t donate because of my diabetes. That turned out to be completely false. A diabetic can’t give blood if they have ever used bovine insulin, for fear of Mad Cow disease! Luckily, by the time I was diagnosed they only used insulin synthesized from human insulin.

Being a diabetic, I’ve never had a problem with needles or blood, so I didn’t expect any problems. Was I wrong!! I was fine after they hooked me up and started drawing the blood. After about 5 minutes, I started getting light-headed and the tunnel vision started setting in. They reclined me, and threw some cold wraps over my head and kneck. As quickly as it started, it went away and I was fine. I’m assuming it was the rate I was losing blood, as I filled my bag a lot quicker than people who started before me. Despite the little episode, it was a good experience and I’ll probably give again.

Well, that’s enough for now. Hopefully I’ll get some more posts up in the near future. Oh, and for the few people that come to my site, and the fewer that have smartphones…I have installed a mobile theme making it much easier to visit my site from a phone (sorry, mobile device)!!

Well, I’m back out in Utah for the second of my four business trips. Last time I really didn’t do any sightseeing, so I’m going to try and do a little this time around. The last time I was here I noticed a road heading up into the mountains and thought it would be neat to drive it, so on my trip from the airport to the hotel I just headed up it. It’s amazing how steep that road is. It’s even more amazing how they have houses up on the side of the mountain!! They have an amazing view, but no yards. And I wouldn’t want to try and get down the hill (or up it) with snow on the ground!!

Anyway, I just wanted to show a couple of pictures I took with my phone. Geeze, you would think I’d be smart enough to bring my camera. Oh well, maybe next time!!

I got an email from TheGunSource with a subject of “Pretty Much The Most Awesome Product, Ever!”. There was no description of the product in the email, but when I clicked on the link I can see why. I can think of one person who will be all over this (looking at you Chris)!!

The product? Tactical Bacon!!!

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